Finance Contracts in London

Financial
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies advertised in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Finance over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 1 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 +1
Contract jobs citing Finance 4,703 7,703 10,603
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 26.91% 29.61% 27.24%
As % of the General category 42.66% 46.81% 45.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,468 5,677 7,503
10th Percentile £400 £425 £413
25th Percentile £506 £513 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £628 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.39% +4.58% +9.09%
75th Percentile £750 £750 £711
90th Percentile £850 £838 £800
England median daily rate £596 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -0.67% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 44 66
10th Percentile £16.39 £18.75 £21.25
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.24 £27.54
Median hourly rate £25.00 £25.71 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.76% -42.22% +66.98%
75th Percentile £30.00 £29.38 £49.25
90th Percentile £52.50 £46.58 £50.31
England median hourly rate £26.97 £25.71 £33.57
% change year-on-year +4.90% -23.41% +56.50%

All General Skills
London

Finance is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 11,025 16,456 23,511
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 63.08% 63.25% 60.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,876 11,929 16,992
10th Percentile £336 £380 £381
25th Percentile £450 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £700
90th Percentile £825 £825 £800
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 233 211 300
10th Percentile £15.60 £16.61 £18.95
25th Percentile £18.13 £21.00 £25.68
Median hourly rate £28.00 £30.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -20.00% +36.36%
75th Percentile £44.75 £53.36 £50.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £30.16 £32.00 £21.78
% change year-on-year -5.75% +46.91% -0.99%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Finance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Finance in London

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Finance in London.

Daily rate trend for Finance in London

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in London

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Finance in London.

Hourly rate trend for Finance in London

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in London

Finance
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the London region over the 6 months to 20 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London 0 696 £600 -7.69% 323
East London 0 89 £585 +0.43% 517
West London +7 32 £400 -23.81% 75
South London -9 23 £555 +5.71% 41
North London -1 4 £561 -0.22% 7
Finance
England

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 222 (4.72%) Apache Airflow
2 203 (4.32%) Apache
3 113 (2.40%) SharePoint
4 63 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
5 58 (1.23%) Confluence
6 38 (0.81%) Apache Spark
7 22 (0.47%) SAS
8 19 (0.40%) CMS
9 16 (0.34%) IIS
10 11 (0.23%) nginx
10 11 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
11 9 (0.19%) MTS
12 8 (0.17%) Skype for Business
13 7 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 7 (0.15%) JBoss
13 7 (0.15%) Tomcat
14 6 (0.13%) Headless CMS
15 5 (0.11%) MQSeries
16 4 (0.085%) WebSphere
17 3 (0.064%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 194 (4.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 147 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
3 78 (1.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 64 (1.36%) MS Visio
5 45 (0.96%) Microsoft Project
6 16 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
7 12 (0.26%) Sketch
8 8 (0.17%) Adobe XD
9 7 (0.15%) InVision
10 6 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
10 6 (0.13%) Photoshop
11 4 (0.085%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 4 (0.085%) InDesign
12 2 (0.043%) Adobe After Effects
12 2 (0.043%) AutoCAD
12 2 (0.043%) Chatbot
12 2 (0.043%) FileZilla
12 2 (0.043%) Revit
12 2 (0.043%) SPSS
13 1 (0.021%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 80 (1.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (0.74%) Aladdin
3 29 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
4 27 (0.57%) Oracle Payables
5 24 (0.51%) Dynamics AX
5 24 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
6 23 (0.49%) Endur
7 22 (0.47%) Oracle Financials
7 22 (0.47%) Workday HCM
8 21 (0.45%) Loan IQ
8 21 (0.45%) Oracle General Ledger
9 18 (0.38%) NetSuite
9 18 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
10 17 (0.36%) Distributed Ledger
10 17 (0.36%) Dynamics GP
10 17 (0.36%) SimCorp Dimension
11 16 (0.34%) Oracle Assets
11 16 (0.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
12 14 (0.30%) Aligne
12 14 (0.30%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 807 (17.16%) Azure
2 653 (13.88%) AWS
3 323 (6.87%) GCP
4 244 (5.19%) Power Platform
5 171 (3.64%) Microsoft 365
6 161 (3.42%) Azure DevOps
7 137 (2.91%) dbt
7 137 (2.91%) Snowflake
8 128 (2.72%) Dynamics 365
9 87 (1.85%) Entra ID
10 83 (1.76%) SaaS
11 73 (1.55%) WhatsApp
12 63 (1.34%) Power Automate
13 61 (1.30%) GitHub
14 57 (1.21%) PaaS
14 57 (1.21%) Serverless
15 56 (1.19%) PowerApps
16 44 (0.94%) IaaS
17 38 (0.81%) Azure Data Factory
18 37 (0.79%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 135 (2.87%) Firewall
2 64 (1.36%) DNS
3 46 (0.98%) WAN
4 40 (0.85%) VPN
5 33 (0.70%) LAN
6 30 (0.64%) Network Security
7 29 (0.62%) Wireless
8 28 (0.60%) BGP
9 27 (0.57%) OSPF
10 23 (0.49%) SAN
11 22 (0.47%) DHCP
12 21 (0.45%) Internet
12 21 (0.45%) MPLS
12 21 (0.45%) SD-WAN
12 21 (0.45%) TCP/IP
13 16 (0.34%) Cisco Nexus
14 15 (0.32%) HTTP
14 15 (0.32%) SSH
14 15 (0.32%) SSL
15 12 (0.26%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 225 (4.78%) Power BI
2 211 (4.49%) SQL Server
3 187 (3.98%) Data Lake
4 181 (3.85%) Apache Ignite
5 134 (2.85%) Amazon Athena
6 132 (2.81%) Apache Arrow
6 132 (2.81%) Dremio
7 107 (2.28%) PostgreSQL
8 104 (2.21%) NoSQL
9 87 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
10 75 (1.59%) Tableau
11 69 (1.47%) Relational Database
12 68 (1.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 65 (1.38%) Metadata
14 61 (1.30%) Big Data
15 52 (1.11%) MySQL
16 51 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 47 (1.00%) Oracle Database
18 44 (0.94%) KDB
19 34 (0.72%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 157 (3.34%) JIRA
2 105 (2.23%) Git
3 91 (1.93%) Jenkins
4 63 (1.34%) Cypress.io
5 51 (1.08%) GitLab
6 46 (0.98%) Cucumber
7 35 (0.74%) JUnit
8 34 (0.72%) Selenium
9 28 (0.60%) TeamCity
10 22 (0.47%) Bitbucket
11 19 (0.40%) Visual Studio
12 18 (0.38%) ERwin
12 18 (0.38%) Postman
13 17 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 16 (0.34%) Mockito
15 14 (0.30%) Gradle
15 14 (0.30%) Maven
16 13 (0.28%) SpecFlow
17 12 (0.26%) Artifactory
18 11 (0.23%) LoadRunner
General
1 1,293 (27.49%) Banking
2 1,117 (23.75%) Social Skills
3 588 (12.50%) Front Office
4 541 (11.50%) Analytical Skills
5 314 (6.68%) Investment Banking
6 249 (5.29%) Public Sector
7 211 (4.49%) Financial Institution
8 192 (4.08%) Marketing
9 150 (3.19%) Presentation Skills
10 144 (3.06%) Telecoms
11 142 (3.02%) Retail
12 138 (2.93%) Manufacturing
13 107 (2.28%) Electronics
14 104 (2.21%) Legal
15 96 (2.04%) Back Office
16 87 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 82 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
18 62 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
19 59 (1.25%) General Ledger
20 54 (1.15%) Law
Job Titles
1 913 (19.41%) Developer
2 758 (16.12%) Analyst
3 502 (10.67%) Senior
4 428 (9.10%) Architect
5 406 (8.63%) Project Manager
6 384 (8.17%) Business Analyst
7 337 (7.17%) Lead
8 310 (6.59%) Consultant
9 245 (5.21%) Software Engineer
10 188 (4.00%) Financial Analyst
11 184 (3.91%) Python Developer
12 156 (3.32%) Java Developer
13 149 (3.17%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 139 (2.96%) Python Engineer
15 137 (2.91%) Solutions Architect
16 131 (2.79%) Senior Developer
17 130 (2.76%) C# Developer
18 129 (2.74%) React Developer
19 120 (2.55%) Data Analyst
20 119 (2.53%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 255 (5.42%) React
2 218 (4.64%) .NET
3 214 (4.55%) gRPC
4 207 (4.40%) Protocol Buffers
5 145 (3.08%) Pandas
6 136 (2.89%) NumPy
7 123 (2.62%) Redux
8 121 (2.57%) SciPy
9 118 (2.51%) AngularJS
10 117 (2.49%) HTML
11 88 (1.87%) XML
12 86 (1.83%) CSS
13 85 (1.81%) REST
14 83 (1.76%) Material-UI
15 78 (1.66%) Node.js
16 77 (1.64%) Spring
17 76 (1.62%) Web Services
18 74 (1.57%) Kafka
19 60 (1.28%) FIX Protocol
20 51 (1.08%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 386 (8.21%) Derivative
2 369 (7.85%) Hedge funds
3 365 (7.76%) Fixed Income
4 286 (6.08%) Equities
5 257 (5.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 159 (3.38%) Product Ownership
7 143 (3.04%) Management Information System
8 74 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
9 73 (1.55%) Onboarding
10 67 (1.42%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 61 (1.30%) Algorithms
11 61 (1.30%) Data Centre
12 58 (1.23%) Data Structures
13 56 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
14 47 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
15 43 (0.91%) Public Cloud
15 43 (0.91%) Renewable Energy
16 40 (0.85%) Reference Data
17 39 (0.83%) Solar Panel
18 36 (0.77%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 301 (6.40%) Windows
2 211 (4.49%) Linux
3 157 (3.34%) Unix
4 72 (1.53%) Windows Server
5 60 (1.28%) Windows 10
6 28 (0.60%) Apple iOS
7 27 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 22 (0.47%) Android
9 20 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
10 19 (0.40%) Windows 7
11 16 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
12 9 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
13 7 (0.15%) Solaris
13 7 (0.15%) VMS
14 6 (0.13%) Oracle Linux
15 4 (0.085%) CentOS
15 4 (0.085%) Mac OS
16 3 (0.064%) Kali Linux
16 3 (0.064%) Windows Server 2008
17 2 (0.043%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,086 (23.09%) Agile
2 519 (11.04%) Problem-Solving
3 501 (10.65%) DevOps
4 476 (10.12%) Asset Management
5 467 (9.93%) Software Engineering
6 413 (8.78%) Project Management
7 388 (8.25%) Stakeholder Management
8 375 (7.97%) Migration
9 359 (7.63%) Business Intelligence
10 357 (7.59%) Investment Management
11 347 (7.38%) Change Management
12 312 (6.63%) CI/CD
13 307 (6.53%) Analytics
14 280 (5.95%) Risk Management
15 246 (5.23%) Data Modelling
16 209 (4.44%) Project Delivery
17 208 (4.42%) Full Stack Development
18 201 (4.27%) Computer Science
19 196 (4.17%) Roadmaps
20 194 (4.13%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 799 (16.99%) Python
2 782 (16.63%) SQL
3 551 (11.72%) Java
4 381 (8.10%) C#
5 354 (7.53%) JavaScript
6 303 (6.44%) TypeScript
7 170 (3.61%) PowerShell
8 101 (2.15%) C++
9 64 (1.36%) PL/SQL
10 63 (1.34%) Scala
11 52 (1.11%) T-SQL
12 51 (1.08%) Shell Script
13 46 (0.98%) Go
14 42 (0.89%) R
15 41 (0.87%) Perl
16 39 (0.83%) VBA
17 33 (0.70%) Bash
18 29 (0.62%) Kotlin
19 25 (0.53%) Rust
20 20 (0.43%) PHP
Qualifications
1 448 (9.53%) Degree
2 241 (5.12%) Security Cleared
3 195 (4.15%) SC Cleared
4 104 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 76 (1.62%) CISSP
6 75 (1.59%) Master's Degree
7 61 (1.30%) CISM
8 49 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
9 48 (1.02%) PMI Certification
10 46 (0.98%) PMP
11 40 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
12 39 (0.83%) DV Cleared
13 36 (0.77%) CISA
14 31 (0.66%) Numerate Degree
15 30 (0.64%) CCNP
16 28 (0.60%) PhD
17 25 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
18 24 (0.51%) ACCA
19 23 (0.49%) CCNA
20 20 (0.43%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 199 (4.23%) QA
2 154 (3.27%) Data Quality
3 131 (2.79%) PMO
4 65 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 64 (1.36%) SLA
6 56 (1.19%) GDPR
6 56 (1.19%) NIST
7 30 (0.64%) Accessibility
8 29 (0.62%) PCI DSS
9 28 (0.60%) GRC
9 28 (0.60%) MiFID
10 21 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 20 (0.43%) IFRS
12 19 (0.40%) SEPA
13 18 (0.38%) EMIR
14 16 (0.34%) ISO 20022
15 13 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 11 (0.23%) GAAP
17 10 (0.21%) Dodd-Frank
18 9 (0.19%) Basel III
System Software
1 208 (4.42%) Active Directory
2 96 (2.04%) Docker
3 35 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
4 29 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (0.34%) IAG
6 13 (0.28%) ACF2
6 13 (0.28%) Firmware
6 13 (0.28%) RACF
7 7 (0.15%) NFS
8 6 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.11%) HDFS
10 4 (0.085%) Hyper-V
10 4 (0.085%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.085%) vSphere
11 2 (0.043%) Time Sharing Option
11 2 (0.043%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.043%) VMware Server
12 1 (0.021%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 160 (3.40%) Kubernetes
2 111 (2.36%) Terraform
3 77 (1.64%) Ansible
4 56 (1.19%) SCCM
5 30 (0.64%) Prometheus
6 26 (0.55%) Puppet
7 21 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
8 19 (0.40%) Grafana
9 17 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
10 15 (0.32%) Progress Chef
11 13 (0.28%) Kibana
12 12 (0.26%) logstash
12 12 (0.26%) PingFederate
13 10 (0.21%) ITRS Geneos
14 9 (0.19%) Netcool
15 8 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 8 (0.17%) Packer
16 7 (0.15%) ArcSight ESM
16 7 (0.15%) Tivoli
17 6 (0.13%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 570 (12.12%) Microsoft
2 355 (7.55%) Oracle
3 305 (6.49%) SAP
4 138 (2.93%) Google
5 132 (2.81%) ServiceNow
6 124 (2.64%) Cisco
7 72 (1.53%) Databricks
8 67 (1.42%) Bloomberg
9 58 (1.23%) Salesforce
10 56 (1.19%) VMware
11 55 (1.17%) Citrix
11 55 (1.17%) IBM
12 42 (0.89%) F5
13 38 (0.81%) Workday
14 35 (0.74%) Qualys
14 35 (0.74%) Splunk
15 32 (0.68%) Palo Alto
16 31 (0.66%) Adobe
16 31 (0.66%) CheckPoint
17 28 (0.60%) Red Hat